Some of the contributors to A Boat of Stars meeting at the HarperCollins office in 2017. Left to right: Chren Byng (publisher), Eve Tonelli (in-house editor), Sara Acton (illustrator and poet), Natalie Jane Prior (editor and poet), Margaret Connolly (editor), Tamsin Ainslie (illustrator and poet), Cheryl Orsini (illustrator), Pauline O’Carolan (poet), Kate Mayes (poet).

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